so i'm sitting in a very quiet haiku plantation inn drinking a coors light while cheryl sips some tea. it's been another full day of fun with a great amount of time at the beach and were winding down.
relaxing and looking back getting ready to post plenty more pictures and wrap up the days events on the blog it hits hard that this is our last day here doing stuff. sacramento to maui will be reversed tomorrow and there will be a full day of traveling to get back to real life things. we had so much fun. It' a big world and we had an awesome slice of the islands. we have to start worrying about real things instead of what beach to go to and if the waves are too big. i have to ponder about no more island breakfasts of pineapple, passion fruit, and papaya. i've grown very fond of them and our new maui rituals. Soon they will be memories kept alive and relived on this website and blog. sure u can get pineapple from the grocery store, macadmia nuts from world market but they are hollow without the actual experiences we have lived here in maui the last few days. we will miss the small winding roads with the lush green on the side. the chickens ruling both sides of the streets (but not the alpha male rooster in the yard here way to damn early in the am). we'll miss the ocean as we are returning to land locked sacramento, and even miss this rustic slice of island life of the plantation inn in haiku that we have stayed at. A real retro estate with a long maui history. we hope you can share in these experiences someday. The sights, the sounds, the smells. it's very foreign yet it's still the u.s.. we hope you make it here yourself one day and understand how the maui vibe and feel grows into you and eveything else fades away. we're especially going to miss ululani's shave ice; a special cup of heaven you can only find on maui.
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thanks for checking the blog out. just a quick post of another fun filled day from maui.
sacramento to maui has been a lovely vacation. we hope this website inspires you to make your trip to maui soon. i'll post more a bit later so after whale watching from a lookout point a good half dozen whales doing there thing we decided to head to sandier wider beaches of resort town kihei. man was it packed. packed with young families with kids running around.
a lot of kihei beaches are also parks so families hang all day grilling and boogie boarding. there are tons of condos/timeshares and resorts of all sizes in kihei. before hitting the beach we headed for some snow...what?????? shaved ice that was heavenly. wet fluffy flavored snow. this yellow snow was mango and passion fruit. ululani's was the snow bomb on a hot day. so maui time is sloooow time. so we slowly did a lot today. went to lahaina (pics in pictures page) to see some sights, buy some stuff at abc store, see the old sugar cane train, and even stopped in for some maui grown coffee after having a few samples and getting jittery we hit a few beaches did some whale watching and had some pie at leoda's. o yeah, proof that cheryl floated in the ocean. quite some time was spent lounging at the beach with copius sun screen and a beach umbrella to hopefully not turn into some lobsters like a few other vacationers around us.
as we were on the west side of the island today it was much mellower and the beaches sandier with smaller swells than the s.e. side of maui where surf town paia and haiku are at. the day before on the s.e. side the waves mere massive and eating up the beaches. in fact park rangers shut one down. the sugar cane train in lahina lays silent and rusting. closed a few years ago but there is hope to restart
sunny and 67 here in maui vs cloudy and 48 in sacramento at posting. truly a world away right now. at maui coffee roasters before going back to thrifty car rental to get a new tire or exchange the car. thick delicious cold brew coffee at maui coffee roasters
yup maui tacos. have to do it maui style. an island institution. i went with the fish. when in rome er maui. got a quick snack on the way to paia and back to haiku on the hana highway. stopping at sprecklesville kids beach, baldwin beach for a while, and then to the next adventure.
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AuthorThe Randalls. Neil who is married to Cheryl have been planning a Maui vacation for months. We are sharing a few things to do in Maui on this Maui Travel Blog Archives
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